With the playlist Friday Finds: This Week’s Best New Music, The Music’s team gathers the best new songs you need to hear every Friday. Here are our picks released this week, 16 October 2026.

Almost six years since their third album, Melbourne electronic icons The Avalanches have returned with 'No Bad Memories', an album borne out of nostalgia, memory, and the ways which advertising speaks to us decades after the fact.

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French electronic music duo Justice compose the score for the forthcoming 'Grand Theft Auto VI' game.

Two years after his last visit to Australia, Damien Rice returns to celebrate his beloved album, 'o.'

'Hans Zimmer Live: The Next Level' lives up to the epic proportions of bringing some of the best music from one of the best film composers of all time to Adelaide.

'Silk Purse – Live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra' was recorded during the band’s historic show at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in January.

"There’s a lot of stigma attached to poverty," Barnes said.

Kasabian, Fat Freddy's Drop and Pete Murray join a program that already features Fatboy Slim, Amyl and the Sniffers, and The Avalanches.

Jimmy Barnes, Kate Ceberano, The Living End, and many others are heading to the Mundi Mundi Plains in August 2027.

Powderfinger announced a massive national tour this morning, taking over Brisbane, Cairns, Perth, Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne. The Music has rounded up everything you need to know to score tickets.